Leaders need to fix education system, Trump can’t be worse than Obama and diversity shouldn’t be an issue in schools — Mailbox for Jan. 20

Here we are in 2017 and our great nation is anxiously gasping and waiting for the upcoming inauguration of our 45th president.

Indeed, the past months while listening with ears wide open to our leaders talk about fixing problems completely convinced me of how huge the distance is between our politicians and We the People, who reside on the front lines, climbing over hills that suddenly became covered with obstacles making it impossible to reach the American Dream.

Our politicians decided America's problems would be solved by providing jobs and more jobs. However, their lack of vision prevents them from understanding how jobs are created.

Our job makers are made in a place called the public schools. This is where a person called a teacher excites and motivates the future engineers, scientists, chemists and others who will create future jobs.

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I am writing about some of the letters regarding Donald Trump. One letter asked how Christians could vote for Trump?

Look who he was running against — someone who said Christians have to get over some of their beliefs. She never said a word about Muslims' beliefs.

Another four years and Christians would have a lot of rights taken away. Our economy is as bad as it was eight years ago. Our immigration is just getting worse.

On Jan. 6, Alvin Miller wrote that 50,000 people died because they were unable to pay for doctors. I don't know where he got that figure from because there was Medicaid for people who could not afford insurance and there were clinics that charge on a scale of what you earn. Some are right here in Greeley.

Mr. Miller, did you know of anyone who died from not having a doctor?

Republicans were not happy with Obama but they did not go out and riot, break windows, cry like babies and demand recounts. It can't be any worse than the last eight years.

Betty White, Greeley

Diversity shouldn't be an issue for D6

In response to the front page article this past Sunday about ethnic diversity in District 6, I would like to suggest we set aside a few bucks every year to paint all of the District 6 children pink and dye their hair green.

Maybe with that out of the way, the adults will be able to teach things like math, science, reading, writing and history. Are we going to start moving kids around because they're too whatever color they are? Who will have that conversation with parents and their children? I tend to doubt most school children are concerned about their friend's ethnicities. Pink paint and green hair dye seems much less ridiculous, in my opinion.